Copy letter from +McQuaid to Bishop Michael Browne, Galway, inviting him to the Liturgical Reception and afterwards to the Gresham Hotel.

• 30 November Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the I.N.T.O., school inspection, Irish emigrants, Public Relations Bureau, Secondary education, adoptions and Intoxicating Liquor Act. Notices and minutes from Standing Committee mainly relating to the teaching of philosophy at Galway University. Finances of Maynooth College and the state of its buildings discussed by Maynooth Trustees. 1958

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + Michael, Galway, regretting that the Archbishop will be absent from the meeting.

Letter from +Browne, Galway to +McQuaid regarding +Heerey’s correspondence.

Handwritten letter from + Michael, Galway, to + McQuaid thanking him for the text of Fr. McDonagh’s address on contraception. Kerry

Handwritten letter from Patrick Glynn, St. Joseph’s, Galway. Dr. Browne accepts +McQuaid’s view in the Adoption Act.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Browne regarding the transfer of St. Enda’s College to St. Patrick’s, Drumcondra until such time as a suitable premises is found in Galway. He has appointed two Irish speaking confessors, Fr. O Cuiv and Fr. Quigley. He suggests the Bishop remains as manager of the transferred College.

Typed copy of a report on a discussion on County Council Scholarships at a meeting of the Rathdown Comhaile Ceannter Fianna Fail. Mrs Byrne asked that the scheme be explained. Booth saw the present scheme as ‘religious discrimination’. University College Dublin (UCD) worked the scholarship scheme for Dublin County Council. If a student wanted to go to Maynooth, Galway or Trinity they would have to apply through UCD. De Valera approached by Booth and said it was a matter for the County Council and UCD and would not get involved. He inferred that His Grace, the Archbishop of Dublin, wrote to The Standard.

Handwritten letter from + Michael, Galway, to + McQuaid thanking him for his gift to the new Cathedral. He felt ‘dignitus Dei est hic’ when recalling the extraordinary coincidence of the views of Tierney and the Minister.

Copy of lecture by Dr. Felician Prill to the Irish Management Institute, Galway Regional Group, at University College Galway, titled ‘The role of management in the reconstruction of the German economy – a contribution to the strengthening of the Free World. 10/11A. 4-5 April Handwritten letter to Fr. MacMahon from Fr. Thomas Fehily. The German Ambassador made discrete inquiries to Fr. Fehily regarding the presentation of the Grand Cross to +McQuaid.